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25: let's talk.

I slowly made my way over to Sol. "Hey...let's not try to kill him. He's already dead...so..." I was hoping he had forgotten about what he told me that he'd do if Jasai came back as a ghost.

"Sol! I'm sorry for what I did! But I came back to-" Jasai dodged the Croc that Sol had thrown at him.

"You should've stayed dead!" Sol yelled, climbing over the couch so he could charge at Jasai.

"Nononononono!" Suji cried, attempting to block Sol.

I ran around the couch and held him back. "Violence isn't the answer! Don't do this!"

"Don't hurt me! I did nothing wrong!" Jasai whined.

All of us, except for Ortega of course, turned to stare at Jasai as if he had just spoken an alien language.

"Are you being for real right now!?" Suji cried.

"No comment," I said.

"You killed me!" Sol yelled.

"I didn't kill you!" Jasai cried before realizing something. "Okay, technically I did, but...um...can you stop glaring at me!? It's stressing me out!"

"Omega. Get me a knife so I can kill this boy," Sol told Ortega.

"It's Ortega..." Ortega mumbled as he made his way to the kitchen.

"No! Don't get a knife!" I cried. "Can't we all just sit down and talk this over? Jasai's onto something."

"I don't care!" Sol yelled, attempting to charge at Jasai who was screaming like a 5 year old girl. Suji and I were struggling to hold him back.

Ortega strolled into the living room with a large chopping knife. "Woah, this is so cool. I'm just now finding out that Sol Eguiluz is a zombie and that the ghost of Jasai Coleman is here...!"

"Gimme the knife!" Sol cried, gesturing at Ortega tp give him the knife.

I quickly let go of Sol and snatched the knife out of Ortega's hands. Then, I got in front of Sol and put the knife to my neck. "If you don't calm down, I'll slit my throat right here and now!"

Sol sighed. "Why do you always do this!?"

I pointed the knife at Sol. Then I pointed it at the couch. "Sit."

Glaring at me, Sol sat down.

Everyone let out a breath of relief.

Then, Sol pulled his pocket knife out of his pockets and charged at Jasai again. All of us started screaming at each other as we struggled to prevent Sol from doing whatever he was doing.

Well, all of us except for Ortega. He was happily watching this whole thing as if it were some TV show. "This is so cool...!" He kept on saying over and over again.

...

"Okay, hi! My name is Jasai Coleman and I'm famously knows as the guy who killed Sol!" Jasai introduced himself with a large smile.

Sol, who was tied to a chair with the same ropes Suji had tied him to the first time we met him, lunged foreword to attack Jasai. Unfortunately, he could only go so far.

"Please. Continue," Suji told Jasai. She was sitting on the couch with me while Ortega was laying on the floor as he played on the Nintendo Switch that he obviously stole from the kids who loved down the hall.

Jasai cleared his throat. "I'm what you call a Glutton Ghost. Yes, I killed Sol, but I was paid to do it. I didn't even want to do it but before I knew it, I ended up doing it. I was promised...what was I promised...?"